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RetroNov 4

A librarian’s mousepad helped “surfing the Internet” catch a much bigger wave

RetroNov 4

Unix’s spellchecker removed "id" because it kept sheltering a mistyped "is"

RetroNov 4

UTF-8’s diner-placemat design had one demand: find your place in the bytes

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

A wall-sized tube computer needs ten minutes to warm up before the tweaking starts

Classic Winamp fits inside a browser, skins and all

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

An ESP32 camera adds Wi-Fi to a blood-pressure display by reading its digits

Windows kept BOZOSLIVEHERE working after the warning became its name

RetroNov 4

Xerox’s laser-printer inventor needed distance from Xerox management

Atari 7800 added 32 times the RAM and kept the 2600’s sound hardware

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

An Echo Dot’s Hidden USB Pads Became a Route Out of Alexa

Natively can dress up as Terminal, but its screen-share hiding is best effort

CalibRaw carries editable RAW photo adjustments between desktop and Android

AINov 4

Four Minecraft AIs Spent 11 Minutes Appointing a Fertilizer Operator

A diagram skill fetches real logos, then asks twice before putting your stack online

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

A Stranger Things Light Wall Lets a Phone Fix the Letter Wiring

USB-C vs. Lightning on iPhone: the cable in the box is still USB 2 speed

Waveshare puts the Arduino UNO Q behind a touchscreen and removes the display cable

Game Boy Color quadrupled work RAM and kept the same 160 × 144 grid

Nintendo DS had 512 times Game Boy’s main RAM and still could not play its games

Karbonn Rebel Pro has 1,000mAh less battery capacity than the plain Rebel

RetroNov 4

A Macintosh designer left extra board traces for a solder-in RAM upgrade

RetroNov 4

MacPaint’s Downloadable Source Shows How Bill Atkinson Hid the Flicker

Switch 2 vs. Switch 1: 8x the storage and 1080p, but as little as 2 hours of battery

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

Analog Redial lets a rotary phone ring the other room, or read pi when you dial 314